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RAVEN LIGHT
Raven light shone on the tide
He heard her voice inside the dream
Calling him across the waves
Over the dark and untamed sea
He left the bones shivering
Took the dead bus out alone
Under the crisp winter stars
Along deserted motor lanes
Shining black syrupy tar
By fields of deathly silent grain
Over the sullen sleeping hills
Into the nameless creeping towns
Where tired people forgot their names
Through the saddened melting snow
Shining crow light bright and black
Shone across the famished sea
Toward the voice inside the dream
Come to me and be near
Hold me in a long embrace
Called the voice inside the dream
By raven’s light warm and pure
They kissed as if the bombs had dropped
They kissed as if the world was dead
They kissed as if the hangman waits
For their necks at dawn
Light shone from the raven’s wings
Onto the saddened melted snow
Into the crow light melting dream
Melting from his heart by dawn
Published 16th Dec 2022
Author's Note
I had a strange dream. I wrote in out. I listened to Christopher Lee read Edgar Allen Poe.
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Anonymous
16th Dec 2022 8:31pm
Your words evoke such an ethereal space... a nightscape filled with this gorgeously dark, romantically aching wonderment... I can hear the subliminal influence of Poe, maybe even Lee.... It adds to the weighted gothic atmosphere that I absolutely love to my core. Your spoken word just hits it out of the park, James!! You really captivate and beautifully transfix.
This is truly one of my favorites, methinks
Phenomenal work, dear friend
🌹 💙
This is truly one of my favorites, methinks
Phenomenal work, dear friend
🌹 💙
17th Dec 2022 6:16pm
Thanks you for your kind words.
I put a lot of feeling into this.
I am glad you got the gothic atmosphere.
Kind regards
James
I put a lot of feeling into this.
I am glad you got the gothic atmosphere.
Kind regards
James
